Rebekah Brooks apparently due to appear at 3.30pm - so that's 2.30am NZ time. Murdochs due around 2.30pm - 1.30am NZ. Though they seem to be running on a bit just now. Feels quite odd to be watching this on Sky News....

Lord Sugar is furious though - reckons questions are a waste of time, as poor old Rupert Murdoch couldn't have known about this kind of micro-detail. Durrrr. For me, part of the point of this whole thing is that there are people in positions of responsibility (Murdoch father and son, Brooks, Yates at the Met etc) who SHOULD have known. Who cares if Murdoch owns so much he can't touch the edges of his vast empire? He ought to have done. Also, I don't believe for one second that he isn't at all times aware of the editorial position of his tiny little NI operation, so why should we believe he didn't know there were other issues. I mean, he didn't KNOW about the Max Mosley blackmail revelations? Seriously, what? And, why not?

Not sure how many people know about global people's network AVAAZ. Campaign on injustice anywhere. Tried to post the link but got the whole message,below, about their Murdoch campiagn.

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Currently, the prime minister says that it's "not in the National interest" to talk about the police-central-server-illicit-data-capture scandal, but the Israeli ambassador has just been summoned to appear on Nine To Noon.

While we are all enjoying dancing on the supposed Murdock grave I just wonder if the political fall out might just go the other wayThinking of the rather delicate legal privilage that journalists currently enjoy to not give up their informants, might this be a good time for the pollies to knock that on the head with regulations which could lead to no one being able to put any light on the murky shadows

It seems to be a bit cavalier to allow open USB ports on machines with PNC access. Really, information like that should be on locked-down machines with no USB or drives, no internet connectivity and controlled access.

It seems to be a bit cavalier to allow open USB ports on machines with PNC access. Really, information like that should be on locked-down machines with no USB or drives, no internet connectivity and controlled access.

and why [-tf?] have they let someone who doesn't understand that do their security? Utterly amateurish.

Oh, I’m sure the political establishment are going to try riding the public wave of sympathy for increased regulation as far as it will possibly go.

But while the rest of the media pack are getting their Murdoch schadenfreude on, they might want to take a deep breath and think about what comes next. After all, I’d respectfully suggest there are a lot of current (and ex-) MPs in all parties will will neither forgive, nor forget, The Daily Telegraph for kicking off the expenses scandal that ended careers, and put four people in prison.